3Prime Launches New Kerley Site

Our company has recently launched a new website for Washington, D.C.-area sign maker Kerley. Kerley Signs has been around for about 4 decades, and has handled clients from every walk of life – churches, schools, restaurants, government agencies, banks, auto shops, retail businesses, and really, anything else you can think of.

In addition to a visual redesign, a dozen new pages have been added with hundreds of images, showing the diversity and quality of the company’s work. Business signs, electronic signs, church and school signs, and signs for government institutions are all there for the prospective customer. Everyone is invited to see the wonderful examples of the sign-maker’s art.

I'll Stick With the American Media

The tragedy in Japan has captured the attention and sympathy of the entire world, with even the country’s traditional enemy – China – sending aid. The Deputy Editor of the major Russian newspaper “Izvestiya,” however, had a different view of the events. Yelena Yampolskaya contributed to her newspaper’s ongiong commentary on the disaster by writing that while “none of us are happy to see the Japanese suffer,” the event is “obvious proof” of God’s intervention on behalf of Russia, in retaliation for unspecified Japanese offenses against her country. Yampolskaya doesn’t appear to have ever detailed the nature of Haiti’s crimes against Russia that caused the devastating 2010 earthquake in that country, which left 300,000 people dead and the nation in ruins.

Certainly, we have heard similar pronouncements Stateside on occasion, but they have generally come from people safely ensconced in small, radical churches and not in major news outlets.

3-Prime Client Gets Google Boost

GayFriendlySource.com, a 3-Prime client, recently got a big boost when its name became included in the Google search auto-complete list. If the user begins typing “gay friendly,” our friends’ website is the number 4 suggestion on the list. This is a remarkable boon to a relatively new website, and goes to show that even recent start-ups can quickly become noticed and achieve a good ranking on Google.

New Page for New Haven Manufacturer

3Prime is proud to announce a new project to revamp the site of aerospace parts manufacturer Space-Craft Manufacturing Inc. SCM was founded 40 years ago in Connecticut, and has been manufacturing gas turbine parts ever since. It is one of the few manufacturers still based in New Haven, once a major American gun-smithing and metal-working center.

The company is one of the few in the world that has the equipment and expertise in turning and milling certain kinds of round turbine and airframe components, and is therefore a valuable strategic business for the American aerospace and defense industries.

3Prime has been contracted to create a new homepage for Space-Craft Manufacturing that will reflect its cutting-edge technology and engineering experience. Check back in a month to admire the difference!
We have created other homepages for manufacturers. Click on the link to see our latest work.

ZipCars Go Municipal

The City of New Haven, CT is looking for ways to scrounge money.

Public Works Director John Prokop told the New Haven Advocate that the city is considering a pilot program to ditch its fleet of municipal vehicles and start using ZipCars for official business. The city currently owns 25 Chevrolet sedans, many of which are well into the six digits on the odometer. The cars are expensive to maintain and fuel, and some of them hold together with spit and baling wire.

By switching to ZipCar, the city expects to score savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars; similar programs have launched in a number of cities nationwide, without obvious negative results. Connecticut auto transport companies will miss hauling inoperative government vehicles back to the parking lot, but applaud any responsible way for the city to save the long-abused taxpayer a few bucks.

Medieval Murderer gets Facebook Fan Group

The murder of Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, by one of his own bodyguards has grabbed headlines around the world this past week. Taseer incurred the enmity of Pakistani religious conservatives by speaking out in favor of the rights of women and religious minorities.

Recently, Taseer has advocated the repeal of Pakistan’s hoary blasphemy law, which prescribes mandatory execution for anyone convicted of “insulting Islam” – most recently, a mother of four from Pakistan’s terrified Christian minority.

Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, inexplicably assigned to Taseer’s security detail despite being a religious whackjob, decided to please God by shooting his boss either nine or twenty-four times, according to varying reports. After earning his ticket to Heaven, Qadri gave himself up, and was showered with flowers from well-wishers on the way to the hoosegow. One of them even created a Facebook group in his support, which lists almost 300 members (who, I bet, immediately show up on a couple of other lists as well) and overflows with schmaltzy paeans to the heroic act of killing an unarmed man for the sin of trying to drag his country into the 18th century.

Unfortunately, the only way to leave a comment on the group’s wall of madness is to join it, so we are reduced to firing off blog posts into the ether, with sincere wishes that Qadri’s punishment fits his own medieval views.

Happy New Year

Well, we made it through another year! What have we learned from 2010? What were our accomplishments?

There were earthquakes, fires, volcanoes and floods, but the sun didn’t go out and the Internet didn’t shut down. Our government did nothing but fight itself for 11 months, only to rally like a college sophomore and win a last chance for a passing grade with a spurt of accomplishments in the two weeks before Christmas. One war drew down, while another escalated. Christopher Nolan made a good movie, and M. Night Shyamalan made a bad one.

Everybody is trying to dig themselves out from under the recession, and, if you live in the North-East, about a yard of snow. Gourmet hamburgers are still the best comfort food in existence.

In 2011, let’s try harder, stretch our arms out further, and get ourselves out of this funk already. Happy New Year, everyone!

Article on Ford's Turnaround posted on CarTransport

Yesterday, an article written by 3PRIME’s content writers went up on CarTransport.co, a car transport company domain operated by 3PRIME. The article examines Ford Motor Company’s financial decisions in the run-up to the 2008-9 recession, and the way that the company’s decision to reject public bailout money presented it with a unique marketing opportunity.

The decision elevated the company in the eyes of consumers, and Ford used the opportunity to rebrand by combining the new-found goodwill with a fresh redesign of their automotive offerings, as well as innovative products such as industry-leading hybrid vehicles. Read the entire article at CarTransport.co: link.

Sustainable Seafood Making Waves in New Haven

Increasing public awareness of overfishing and population collapse among a number of important commercial seafood species is driving efforts by sushi restaurants to source their ingredients sustainably, and often, punishing businesses that fail to adapt to the new environmental reality.

As an example of the latter, Portland’s Sinju restaurant found itself in turbulent waters last July when a customer complained that they stocked the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna on their menu. Instead of addressing the complaint, the restaurant ended up banning the customer. After a month of being lambasted on blogs following this incident, the Atlantic bluefin was off the menu.

On the other hand, New Haven’s own Miya’s Sushi has been at the tip of the spear when it comes to sustainably-sourced food. Miya’s has gained international fame for a number of distinctions, from the world’s most extensive vegetarian sushi menu (for a list of the most healthy and nutritious veggies, it’s always good to go back to the famous 11 vegetable nutrition table) to wildly creative fusion sushi dishes that may include ingredients such as grits, dried apricots, blue cheese and potato skins. Arguably, though, the principal claim to fame of Miya’s has been the owner, chef Bun Lai’s fanatical devotion to sustainable sourcing.

The restaurant only serves fish that is plentiful and not in danger of overfishing, but Bun Lai has taken it further – he is also a pioneer of urban foraging, even offering foraging tours to adventurous gastronomes who want to discover edibles in unexpected places. He has also taken the unique step of building a good number of his dishes around invasive species. This has the effect of bringing people new, interesting flavors while also providing what Bun Lai himself calls a “weeding service”.

You’re asking, what’s the connection with web development? None, other than the fact that the hard-working employees of 3PRIME, your friendly local CT Web company are fans of both good sushi and environmentally-friendly food, and commend the owner’s efforts to combine both.